I have 4 wifi cards, three report missing primary firmware after a few minutes use the other a senao intersil prism card has the fantastic ability to periodically tell me that my access point is out of range even though it is within 2 meters of mt C3100 at the time.

The other 3 cards are a Dlink DWL-660W, Ambicom WL1100C, elink XI815All are prism cards, I have tried firmware upgrades and downgrades only to find that as soon as I want to do anything useful dmesg reports "no primary F/W"

Typically I can do an ipkg update sucessfully but as soon as I try to install or browse more than a couple of pages my wifi dies.

One or even two cards going faulty and producing the same error is plausible - just about, but 3 cards going faulty, two of them purchased within the last 2 months going faulty makes me suspect my hostap drivers. Why does the hostap driver try and reload firmware to the card after a few minutes/megs? is there any way to stop it doing this?

I have the Ambicom, and have used it without problems on betas 1 and 3 as well as r121.

ArchiMark

Mar 17 2007, 04:36 PM

FWIW, I'm using my Ambicom WiFi card and it works fine....

HTH,

Mark

stormer

Mar 18 2007, 08:20 AM

Seems to work if I use orinoco rather than hostap, through the very blunt instrument of renaming hostap_cs.conf and letting the hermes_cs.conf pick up the cards instead, I just cannot figure out why hostap on Pdax decides that a working card has lost it's firmware?

I know that I should probably just leave this alone as it is working but where would the fun be in that!

Also orinoco doesnt really handle the transition back from Kismet very well!

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